Goran_M

I spoke to Cameron a few days ago. He does have the update files and hopefully they will be up this week. Cameron has been very busy with the release of Javiers Mentor and some other things as well and being a 1 man operation, his time is limited. When the files have been uploaded, Cameron will let you know, either in an email or in these forums. G

Work In Progress. Keep in mind, this is NOT a render. This is just texture mode in Blender. There will be some minor color corrections to some areas and obviously some areas are yet to be textured.

Double check that copyright. I could be wrong, but from what I remember about copyright stuff, if you credit the source and DO NOT make a profit from it, it is legal to put it up for download. Goran

The -400 gives me a headache just looking at it. Someone say "HEAVY DUTY PLUG INS"? This one is definitely just the -300 series. Analogue gauges aplenty.

A bit of news on the Twin Otter. Before you ask, this is not my project. I have been asked to do gauge animations and gauge programming only and the occasional post. I have absolutely nothing else to do with this project. There is no release date as yet.

Cheers Max. Glad you like it.

Come on Javier. You know better than to expect to see the Mentor on the org front page. It will never happen as long as Nicolas is in charge. Nicolas even private messaged me to tell me that he knows I get my "friends" to "pimp" my add ons in the org forums. (I swear, those were his words). He doesn't realize that people might actually LIKE X-aviation add ons.

PM sent.

I just saw what you guys said about the Duchess in those screenshots. Don't know what else to say except thanks from both of us! Goran and Theo

Yes, sorry, I knew that you guys would have the detailed manual. The link was to provide the basics for those who are not sure about main and standby instruments and their locations etc. No probz, Mikester

Thanks Mike but we have the AOM which has over 3500 pages. The manuals on smartcockpit are cut down versions of the original.

The Saab I modeled is the one that is used in the POH. All panel jpegs are imported into Blender and modeled accordingly. Then we use photos I was able to get of a Saab panel to make sure everything is there and that is then textured accordingly. I wasn't able to get into an actual cockpit but I know a Saab 340 pilot who was able to get me a whole bunch of photos.

I think you're talking about the airspeed indicator. There is a main ASI to the left of the pilots displays and there is a standby ASI under the artificial horizon Goran

Work continues on the Saab. Other sections of the panel are being "fine tuned" with the texturing. When we have more to show, we will. We're going a little insane with some of the modeling and texture detail with this one. Goran

Nicolas makes a lot of noise about a lot of things.

Sorry for the very late reply. I just didn't see it. Anything we are not aware of, we will be aware of as time passes. I have a retired 747-200 Flight Engineer who is going to help me with testing and he has already given me quite a bit of info. When the 747 is ready to start test flying, he'll be pointing out any mistakes and refinements that are needed. The flaps are going to be a nightmare along with the landing gear. Getting it all to work properly will be quite a lot of work. Hopefully it won't take me too long to get it all moving smoothly.

Here's the first textured screenshot of part of the panel. We're only showing a small portion of it as we are still working on the modeling and texturing for the rest of it. I'm adding small, subtle details that were not there in the previous 3d model and Theo is adding more details in the texturing. We're going hammer and tongs on this one as we want to get it finished asap. Looking at everything we need to do, we expect (and HOPE) it to be done in the next 2 months. As always, comments and feedback welcome.

We're working on it. I used some the same modeling techniques on the Sundowner that I used on the Duchess. I also did all the animations from scratch. Theo re-textured some objects. Problem now is that Theo is unable to do anything at certain times because of the earthquake in Christchurch (which is where he lives). His power keeps cutting out and this is the time I was going to get him to re do the exterior textures. We still have the panel regions to do (manipulators and displays) so it shouldn't be long.

It will have around the same, maybe even more polygons, than Peters A380. On top of that, an insane amount of textures and plug in work. Extremely unlikely it will run smoothly in a simulator.

Gyro drift is not modelled on this plane. I think the heading bug problem you are experiencing is something that was my fault when animating the panel. The keyframing is slightly off (by about 2-5°) and has been fixed. It now follows and lines up with the correct magnetic heading. This is completely automatic and there is no adjustments needed. To program a true heading requires plug in work as magnetic variation varies with your position on the earth on the latitude. You could always allow for this using a WAC and adjusting the heading bug on the HSI. I know at around 133°S latitude, the magnetic variation is about 12°. Regarding the wet compass, I'll talk to Theo and see what he can do about making bolder hash marks. Thanks for your comments. Our next project will either be the 747-200 or Saab 340. We're working on both at the same time so we'll see which one gets done first. Goran

Just to make it clear, this is not my project. Read under the picture. It was a joke post. It's someone else's work. I seriously doubt this aircraft, modeled like that, would have no fewer than 1.5 million polygons.

Add the temperature bug to the fix list. Temperatures of less than zero were showing up without the negative sign. That has been fixed tonight. Thanks guys for posting these bugs and emailing me about some of them. I'm almost 100% sure we ironed out all the bugs out of this one and the updated files should be available soon.

Not up yet. Cameron will let everyone know and then you'll be able to download it. Probably in the next week

I decided to show the secret project I was working on last year. Hopefully it will be ready for Christmas. Just something I decided to work on during the weekends... ALMOST HAD YA! It's something someone else did at the cgsociety forums. Modeling like this totally amazes me!